Senin, 06 Mei 2013

Amanda Bynes' Nose Job: Troubled Star Reveals She Had Plastic Surgery

The 27-year-old has taken to Twitter to reveal that she did, in fact, have a nose job several years ago. Bynes says that she hates when media outlets use old photos of her, gushing, "I look so much prettier in my new photos."
"Intouch used a photo from years ago on their cover and I hate it! The reason I've asked all magazines and blogs to stop using old photos of me is I don't look like that anymore! I had a nose job to remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes. I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I look so much prettier in my new photos that I don't want old photos used anymore!" she tweeted May 5.
"I'm so sick of magazines and blogs using old photos! When will they stop?" Bynes continued. "I will never look like that again! Having surgery was the most amazing thing for my confidence!"
The troubled star has been open about her new appearance, tweeting about her haircut, weight loss and style over the past few months.

Mayweather vs Guerrero: 5 key points

Floyd Mayweather's first Showtime fight saw the return of his father, trash talking build up, a 44th straight victory and new opponents lining up.
Having ditched HBO for Showtime, Mayweather needs to keep the boxing world entranced. And he needs to keep winning. Mayweather's training camp for his 44th fight (44-0) was the longest he had ever undertaken.

Front Page News Sport Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Home Entertainment Celebrity News By Dailyrecord.co.uk Kriss Kross rapper Chris 'Mac Daddy' Kelly, famed for hit Jump dies at age of 34

NINETIES rap star Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly, one half of duo Kris Kross, has died at the age of 34.
It is alleged that the rapper had been taking a mix of cocaine and heroin on the day he died, last Wednesday.
Best known as Mac Daddy, Kelly was one half of the 1990s rap duo who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with Jump.
Kelly and partner Chris Smith, known as Daddy Mac, became well-known for the one of the best known songs of the nineties - Jump.
The hit was written by Jermaine Dupri and became a No 1 smash around the world.
Kriss Kross' success led to instant fame - they toured with Michael Jackson, appeared on TV shows, and even had their own video game.
The group was never able to match the tremendous success of their first song, though they had other hits like Warm It Up, and Tonite's tha Night.

 

Minggu, 05 Mei 2013

Amanda Bynes Has Almost Completed Her Transformation into Stripper Blac Chyna

The mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a question mark and topped with a blond wig known as Amanda Bynes is transforming before our very eyes. But transforming into what, you ask? A certain famous stripper. Maybe.
In a recent interview, Amanda revealed the inspiration behind her new look: "I wanted to look like Blac Chyna." Blac Chyna being the stripper turned video girl turned rap reference who boasts blonde bangs and cheek piercings.

Once Amanda nailed the Blac Chyna look, she needed a medium to show off the results. Well she need look no further than—wait for it—Blac Chyna for inspiration. And if Amanda's heavy lidded pout in these selfies is a copy cat of Chyna's, well...nailed it? (Amanda similarly began collaging photos of herself just like Blac Chyna has been known to do.)

Amanda is obsessed with herself, which is a sign of self confidence and/or swagger. She tells you as much: "I'm obsessed with myself on twitter. Also, my video last night was perfection." Blac Chyna thinks highly of herself too: "I'm trying the baddest bitch on Twitter...But I can't seem to find her !" (which translates to "I'm obsessed with myself. My video last night was perfection.")
Put on your sunglasses, because both of these babes shine bright! And put on your sunglasses because neither girl knows how to turn off her camera flash in a mirror selfie!

NBA player Jason Collins Admits He Gay

One more sportsman admitted homosex. He is a veteran U.S. basketball association (NBA) Jason Collins. He openly admitted he was gay.

In an article written from the perspective of the first in the pages of Sports Illustrated magazine, published Monday (29/4), Collins began with: "I was a midfielder 34-year-old NBA. I am black. And I am gay. "

Collins has played in six teams in 12 seasons, last for the Washington Wizards after exchanged in the middle of the season of the Boston Celtics. He is now free of the agent and want to continue to play in the NBA.

United Football League (NFL) is mainly seen as an American professional sports very macho, as shown in the player San Francisco 49ers Chris Culliver who told reporters that he did not want any gay players in the team locker room.

He then drew the comment, but reports later emerged in February that NFL teams ask players about their sexuality at the university will be recruited.

Atlanta funeral scheduled for Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly

Funeral services are planned next week in Atlanta for former Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly, who was found dead in his home from a possible drug overdose.
Murray Brothers Funeral Home in Atlanta confirmed Saturday that it will hold a public viewing for Kelly throughout the afternoon and evening Wednesday. A funeral service has been scheduled for Thursday at Jackson Memorial Baptist Church.
Kelly, known as "Mac Daddy," and Chris Smith, known as "Daddy Mac," made up the 1990s child rap duo Kris Kross known for wearing their clothes backward as they rhymed. Their song "Jump" became one of the decade's most memorable songs.
The 34-year-old Kelly died Wednesday. His mother told Fulton County police her son had become sick after using cocaine and heroin the night before he died.

 

Selasa, 19 Februari 2013

Chinese Film Beats Hollywood Blockbusters

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Waltham credit union participates in scholarship program

RTN Federal Credit Union is participating in the Massachusetts Credit Union League's 2013 College Scholarship Contest. Six $1,500 scholarships will be awarded.

High school seniors who are RTN members or have parents or guardians who are RTN members are eligible to enter the contest.?

Applicants must be high school seniors who will be enrolled in an undergraduate college degree program during the 2013-14 academic year. They must submit a typewritten essay, in 250 words or less, about a person or event that has been an inspiration to them, and describe the effect that person or event has had on their outlook on life. Entrants also must complete an application and submit an academic transcript of their grades.

Essays, applications and transcripts must be submitted to RTN no later than Friday, March 1, at: RTN Federal Credit Union, Attn: Paula Kerwin, 600 Main Street, Waltham, MA 02452.?

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Senin, 18 Februari 2013

All better? Great! Now, repay 11 years of workers' comp ? Business ...

A South Carolina man has been convicted of workers? compensation fraud for bilking the Ohio Bureau of Workers? Compensation out of $143,203.33. Joseph Curto of Conway, S.C., dodged a sentence of up to 18 months in prison, getting four years of community supervision instead. The judge said he had to remain employed the whole time.

Curto will need the paychecks, too, because he must repay the workers? comp bureau.

However, maintaining employment shouldn?t be a problem. In fact, Curto?s insistence on working while continuing to receive workers? comp benefits is what tipped off Ohio investigators.

When they heard he was working for a trucking company, bureau officials traveled to South Carolina to confront him. Under questioning, he admitted to working seven different jobs since 1999, when he began receiving total disability payments following an injury suffered while working in Ohio. At each, he used his wife?s Social Security number to hide the income.

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Karzai to Ban Afghan Forces from Requesting Airstrikes (Voice Of America)

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Sabtu, 16 Februari 2013

Toshiba Satellite Pro C850 Realtek Bluetooth Driver 2.3.9.0211.2012 for Windows 7 x64

The package provides the installation files for Toshiba Satellite Pro C850 Realtek Bluetooth Filter Driver Package. This driver is needed to enable bluetooth on your WLAN-combo-card.

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Toshiba Satellite Pro C850 Realtek Bluetooth Driver 2.3.9.0211.2012 for Windows 7

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Docking a behemoth: Triumph on final leg to port (Providence Journal)

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Jumat, 15 Februari 2013

Google Nexus 4 update sees Android 4.2.2 introduced

Google has released a bug fix for the Google Nexus 4, with the handset benefitting from a newly launched Android 4.2.2 update.

Bringing a selection of fixes and patches for the latest addition to the Nexus line of devices, the Android 4.2.2 update, which is available as an over-the-air download, offers only incremental changes and not wholesale updates to the Samsung Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5 rival.

Whilst Google, unlike Apple, does not offer a detailed change-log with each update, breaking down all the incoming alterations, it is believed the patch will see a number of minor changes made, including the introduction of an progress percentage check for downloading applications.

According to latest reports, the newly released Android 4.2.2 update, which measures in at just 54MB in size, also sees Google Nexus 4 handset owners offered new wireless charging and low battery alert sounds, enhanced quick settings access and a new Gallery app animation.

Google Nexus 4 Specs
Having been the launch device for the latest Android 4.2 Jelly Bean release, the Google Nexus 4 has gone on to become a true powerhouse of the smartphone sector, enticing users with its high-end specs sheet and wallet-friendly price tag combination.

With an expansive and vibrant 4.7-inch WXGA IPS display leading the Google Nexus 4 specs contingent, the handset features an impressive 1280 x 768p resolution and a 320 pixels-per-inch image density, all wrapped within a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protective coating.

Lining up at just 9.1mm thick and a friendly 139g in weight, the Google Nexus 4 features list is further complimented by 2GB of RAM, a speedy 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and the option of either 8GB or 16GB of internal storage. Although only a black Google Nexus 4 handset is currently available for purchase, a white model has recently leaked online.

With over 1 million Google Nexus 4 handsets having already sold despite repeated stock shortages, the device is rounded off by an 8-megapixel rear-mounted camera with 1080p Full HD video recording capabilities and a second, 1.3-megapixel snapper around front. A 2100mAh Lithium-polymer battery provides the handset?s staying power.

Are you a Google Nexus 4 owner? Have you made the jump to the new Android 4.2.2 update? Let us know via the TrustedReviews Twitter and Facebook feeds or through the comment boxes below.

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Kamis, 14 Februari 2013

Broadcasters blame zombie hack on easy passwords

(Reuters) - Poor password security paved the way for hackers to broadcast a bogus warning on television networks, saying that the United States was under attack by zombies, broadcasters said.

Cyber security experts said the equipment the hackers broke into remained vulnerable to further breaches, and that hackers could potentially take control of the equipment to prevent the government from sending out public warnings during an emergency.

Following the attacks Monday on a handful of TV stations, the government ordered broadcasters to change the passwords for the equipment that authorities use to instantly transmit emergency broadcasts through what is known as the Emergency Alert System, or EAS.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would not comment on the attacks, but in an urgent advisory sent to TV stations on Tuesday, the agency said: "All EAS participants are required to take immediate action."

It instructed them to change passwords on equipment from all manufacturers used to deliver emergency broadcasts to TV networks, interrupting regular programming. The FCC instructed them to ensure that gear was properly secured behind firewalls and to inspect their systems to ensure that hackers had not queued "unauthorized alerts" for future transmission.

VULNERABLE

The attacks come in the wake of warnings by officials and outside security experts that the United States is at risk of a cyber attack that could cause major physical damage or even cost lives. President Barack Obama has told Congress that some hackers were looking for ways to attack the U.S. power grid, banks and air traffic control systems.

While the zombie hoax appeared to be somewhat innocuous, the relatively easy incursion showed that hackers might be able to wreak havoc with more alarming communications.

"It isn't what they said. It is the fact that they got into the system. They could have caused some real damage," said Karole White, president of the Michigan Association of Broadcasters.

White and her counterpart in Montana, Greg MacDonald, said they believed the hackers were able to get in because TV stations had not changed the default passwords they used when the equipment was first shipped from the manufacturer.

But Mike Davis, a hardware security expert with a firm known as IOActive Labs, said hackers could still get past new passwords to remotely access the systems.

Davis said he had submitted a report to the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, about a month ago that detailed the security flaws.

"Changing passwords is insufficient to prevent unauthorized remote login. There are still multiple undisclosed authentication bypasses," he told Reuters via email. "I would recommend disconnecting them from the network until a fix is available."

Davis said he was able to use Google Inc's search engine to identify some 30 systems that he believed were vulnerable to attack as of Wednesday morning.

A spokesman for US-CERT said he could not immediately comment on the matter.

MANY WAYS IN

Stuart McClure, chief executive of cyber security firm Cylance Inc., said he had investigated cases in which hackers accessed EAS systems via a different method: breaking into hidden accounts built into the systems by manufacturers so that service technicians can easily access them for repairs.

"You cannot give a separate pass code to everybody. Nobody is going to remember it. You have to share the secret," said McClure, who previously ran a unit at Intel Corp's McAfee security division that investigated cyber attacks.

He declined to discuss the cases he had worked on, saying that would violate client confidentiality.

Broadcasters and security experts warned that attacks on the Emergency Alert System could undermine the government's ability to communicate with the public in times of crisis.

"While EAS may not control nuclear power or hydroelectric dams or air traffic control, it can be used to cause widespread panic," McClure said.

Indeed, far worse than broadcasting zombie jokes, hackers who are able to gain control of the equipment could prevent authorities from warning the public about actual emergencies, McClure added.

Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dan Watson said that the "zombie" breach did not have any impact on the government's ability to activate the Emergency Alert System.

'BODIES ARE RISING'

The "zombie" hackers targeted two stations in Michigan, and several in California, Montana and New Mexico, White said.

A male voice addressed viewers in a video posted on the Internet of the bogus warning broadcast from KRTV, a CBS affiliate based in Great Falls, Montana: "Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from the grave and attacking the living."

The voice warned not "to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous."

Bill Robertson, vice president of privately held electronics manufacturer Monroe Electronics of Lyndonville, New York, told Reuters that equipment from his company had been compromised in at least some of the attacks after hackers gained access to default passwords.

Monroe publishes the default passwords for its equipment in user manuals that can be accessed on its public website.

Robertson said that he believed attackers had been able to access the devices over the Internet because television stations had not properly secured the equipment behind fire walls, which is what Monroe recommends.

"The devices were not really locked down right. They were exposed," he said.

He said that the company was working to beef up security on the equipment and might update its software to compel customers to change default passwords.

(Editing by Lisa Shumaker, Patrick Graham and Bernadette Baum)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zombie-hoax-blamed-lax-passwords-u-broadcasters-045823499--sector.html

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Big hedge funds fueled Apple's fourth-quarter share plunge

BOSTON | Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:18pm EST

BOSTON (Reuters) - Some of the biggest hedge funds that helped make Apple Inc a stock market darling lost faith and dumped their stakes in the fourth quarter, fueling the massive drop in the iPhone maker's share price.

Noted stock pickers including Leon Cooperman, Eric Mindich and Thomas Steyer unloaded billions of dollars of Apple shares between September 30 and December 31, according to disclosure documents filed on Thursday.

Shares of Apple rose to an all-time high of $705.07 on September 21 but ended 2012 down more than 24 percent from that peak, as concerns about increasing competition and declining profit margins weighed.

The shares also may have dropped because their price rose too much, too fast.

"The stock just went up so much in early 2012 and then was coming back to earth," said Justin Walters, co-founder of Wall Street research firm Bespoke Investment Group. "Three months from now, we'll be seeing a lot of the people who sold starting to pick it up again."

The fourth-quarter sellers avoided even deeper losses. Apple's shares have lost 12 percent so far this year. The shares were up $1.95, or 0.4 percent, at $468.96 on the Nasdaq on Thursday.

Cooperman's Omega Advisors fund dumped its entire stake of more than 266,000 shares during the fourth quarter, according to its required quarterly disclosure form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mindich, named the youngest partner ever at Goldman Sachs before starting his Eton Park Capital Management fund in 2004, got out of Apple entirely in the fourth quarter after making big sales in the third quarter as well. Eton owned 600,000 shares at the beginning of 2012.

Farallon Capital, the hedge fund founded by Steyer, sold 137,000 shares. Steyer, who once worked on the Goldman Sachs risk arbitrage desk under Robert Rubin, stepped down at the end of the year from the firm, which he founded in 1986. Rubin served as U.S. Treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999.

Jana Partners, an activist fund run by Barry Rosenstein, also unloaded its entire Apple stake of more than 143,000 shares.

PROFITABLE TRADES

Despite the plunge in Apple's stock price, most of the managers likely exited their positions with substantial profits because they bought years earlier.

Rosenstein and Cooperman, for example, both started gathering their stakes in the middle 2010, at a time when Apple shares traded below $300.

At the time, the company's iPhone 4 was beset by alleged faulty reception, a problem that became known as "antennagate." Apple's then-chief executive, the late Steve Jobs, famously dismissed the issue, saying "we don't think we have a problem." But Apple offered customers a free bumper case that was supposed to minimize any issues.

Customers did not seem to care, snapping up millions of iPhones and sending Apple's share price up almost 50 percent over the next year.

Apple came under further scrutiny last week from prominent hedge fund manager David Einhorn. Einhorn's fund, Greenlight Capital, owned more than 1 million shares of Apple at the end of September. Greenlight's updated regulatory filings are to be released later today.

Einhorn filed a lawsuit to block changes in Apple's policy for issuing preferred stock. Instead, Apple should issue a new class of preferred stock to share more of its $137 billion cash hoard with shareholders, Einhorn said.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook dismissed the moves as a "silly sideshow" on Tuesday.

SOME TRIMMED

Not all well-known hedge fund fans of Apple cut ties in the fourth quarter. Some only trimmed their holdings.

Philippe Laffont, who worked under famed hedge fund manager Julian Robertson before striking out on his own at Coatue Management, sold about 18 percent of his Apple shares. Coatue ended the year with a still sizable 643,000 shares.

Chase Coleman, another manager who worked for Robertson, reduced the Apple stake at his Tiger Global Management fund by 19 percent to just over 1 million shares.

Robertson's own Tiger Management LLC fund trimmed its Apple stake by 28 percent to about 42,000 shares.

Large hedge funds are required to disclose their U.S. stock holdings within 45 days after the end of each quarter.

But the filings may not give a complete picture of each fund's moves, since only U.S.-listed shares and options must be revealed. Bonds, foreign shares and derivatives are not included, and short positions, or bets that a stock will fall in price, are not listed.

(Reporting by Aaron Pressman; Additional reporting by Katya Wachtel, Svea Herbst, Sam Forgione and Jennifer Ablan in New York; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/14/us-hedgefunds-apple-filings-idUSBRE91D1BD20130214?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

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Google countersues BT over alleged IP networking patent violations

Google countersues BT over alleged conferencing, quality patent violations

Google isn't letting BT's Android patent lawsuit go unanswered, even if it's taking its sweet time. Over a year after BT struck first, Google has filed a countersuit against BT that claims the provider is infringing four patents relating to IP-based conferencing and quality of service delivery. The search firm makes clear that its lawsuit is leverage for a possible truce: it's using the action as a "last resort" to fend off both BT and the patent holding companies that BT uses as proxies, according to a Google spokesperson. BT hasn't had a chance to respond -- or to be formally served, as of this writing -- but we can't imagine that a company which once sued over hyperlinks will simply agree to a stalemate.

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Christopher Dorner and the California Death Penalty

At this moment, it looks like Christopher Dorner, the ex-L.A.P.D. officer who?s been terrorizing Southern California for the past week, died on Tuesday in a confrontation with his pursuers. A San Bernardino deputy sheriff was also killed; Dorner has already been charged with the murder of another officer, and is alleged to have killed two other people. In a lengthy post on Facebook last week, Dorner said that the motive for his rampage was an unjust dismissal from the L.A.P.D. several years ago.

If Dorner didn?t die (and is later caught), we can be sure that one or more district attorneys will seek to have him executed. And thus the nation would be forced to confront one of the biggest fiascoes in the American legal system?the death penalty in California.

It?s possible for reasonable people to hold differing opinions on the death penalty. (Over the years, I?ve had several different ones myself.) But what?s going on in California represents the worst of all worlds?a massively expensive Potemkin operation in which hundreds of people are sentenced to death and no one is ever executed.

Here are the facts, most of them courtesy of the Death Penalty Information Center, which is an invaluable clearinghouse of accurate information and thoughtful analysis. There are seven hundred and twenty-four people on death row in California, far more than in any other state. (Texas only has three hundred and four.) But since the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in 1976, there have only been thirteen executions in California, and none since 2006. (There have been seven hundred and fifty-five in Texas.) So it?s entirely likely that a jury would send Dorner to death row in San Quentin, along with other killers like Scott Peterson. But there is basically no chance that Dorner would ever be put to death.

There are several reasons that the system in California has ground to a halt. The 1978 voter initiative that restored the death penalty sent all appeals directly to the California Supreme Court, bypassing the intermediate appeals courts. This has created a huge backlog at the state?s highest court. Moreover, challenges to the method of execution have led to a de facto moratorium on executions since 2006. That impasse continues.

The root of the problem, in California and elsewhere, is that, as the Supreme Court has often said, death is different. The finality of capital punishment requires special safeguards against errors in the judicial process. But if a state takes those safeguards seriously, as California does, the process can become never-ending. Death-row exonerations, through DNA evidence and other means, have provoked even greater scrutiny of the cases of those who remain. And the state?s oxymoronical quest to kill people in a humane fashion turns out to be difficult indeed. All of this leads to delay.

And to enormous expense: many studies have shown that the death penalty is far more costly to taxpayers than a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Research summarized by the Death Penalty Information Center suggests that California has spent more than four billion dollars on the death penalty since 1978. Florida pays about $24 million per execution. Maryland spent $186 million for five executions.

These cost issues led last year to a voter initiative to abolish the death penalty in California. Proposition 34 lost, but the anti-execution position received forty-seven per cent of the vote. By comparison, the 1978 initiative to restore the death penalty passed with seventy per cent of the vote, so there?s clearly been a major change in public sentiment. The national trends are all heading in the same direction: popular support, death sentences, executions all heading down.

The death penalty is not the only issue raised by the Dorner case. There is also the tangled story of race and the Los Angeles Police Department, which he reprised in his manifesto; the role of guns; and the way that coverage of the manhunt practically upstaged the State of the Union address. There is also the mystery of his crimes themselves and Droner?s decline into criminal madness. If Dorner is dead, few will mourn him. But anyone who has thought that his murderous spree?or the next spectacular California crime?would lead to a restoration of executions is very much mistaken. The death penalty is already over in California in fact; it may take a little while longer to be gone in law, too.

Photograph by Rex Features/AP.

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/02/dorner-and-the-california-death-penalty.html

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Rabu, 13 Februari 2013

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The Kids from OVW that Changed WWE

John Cena, Randy Orton, Brock Lesnar and Batista. The four biggest Superstars of the past decade have 30 World Championship reigns between them, five Royal Rumble Match victories, turns as King of the Ring and Mr. Money in the Bank, and even a mixed martial arts championship. But before all that, they were just four kids in Kentucky, dreaming of bigger things.

For nearly a decade, Ohio Valley Wrestling in Louisville, Ky., was the proving ground for future WWE Superstars. The top prospects of the industry weren?t placed under the bright lights of big cities like New York or Los Angeles, but in the old-school promotion based in the Bluegrass State. (PHOTOS?| VIDEO PLAYLIST)

Many hopeful Superstars headed to Derby City with dreams of making it big in sports-entertainment. Only a select few were chosen to become full-time members of the WWE roster, but these four men became bigger than anyone could have imagined.

And now, more than a decade since Cena, Orton, Lesnar and Batista first made an impact on WWE, WWE Classics reveals the untold story of how their paths crossed before they were Superstars.

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Source: http://www.wwe.com/classics/kids-from-ovw

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Selasa, 12 Februari 2013

American Society of Cinematographers likes the look of "Skyfall"

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Roger Deakins won the top feature-film award from the American Society of Cinematographers on Sunday night for "Skyfall," meaning that "Argo" only went two-for-three on a weekend of film awards ceremonies.

While "Argo" won at the Scripter Awards on Friday and the BAFTA Awards earlier Sunday, it was not even nominated for an ASC Award, where Deakins' work on the James Bond movie "Skyfall" won out over Danny Cohen for "Les Miserables," Claudio Miranda for "Life of Pi," Janusz Kamninski for "Lincoln" and Seamus McGarvey for "Anna Karenina."

All except Cohen are nominated for the cinematography Oscar. In Cohen's place, Robert Richardson was nominated by the Academy's Cinematographers Branch for "Django Unchained."

The win was the third competitive ASC Award for Deakins. He also received the ASC's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, though he is 0-for-9 in Oscar nominations going into this year's show.

Deakins was not in attendance at the awards. Earlier in the day, Miranda won a BAFTA Award for "Life of Pi" but had opted to attend the ASC Awards rather than the BAFTAs, where "Pi" director Ang Lee accepted on his behalf.

"Life of Pi" is considered the favorite to win an Oscar in two weeks, though the category is exceptionally competitive and Deakins is long overdue for an Academy Awards win.

Films winning the ASC Award have gone on to win the Oscar slightly less than half the time in the awards' 26-year history, including five times in the last 10 years. When Deakins, left in file photo, won the ASC Award for "The Shawshank Redemption" in 1995, he lost at the Oscars to "Legends of the Fall"; when he won for "The Man Who Wasn't There" seven years later, he lost the Oscar to "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."

In the television categories, ASC voters were deadlocked in the One-Hour Episodic Series category, where Balazs Bolygo and Kramer Morgenthau tied for episodes of "Hunted" and "Game of Thrones," respectively.

Bradford Lipson won the ASC's Half-Hour Episodic Series Award for an episode of FX's "Wilfred," while Florian Hoffmeister won the Television Movie/Miniseries honor for PBS Masterpiece's "Great Expectations."

Honorary awards went to Dean Semler ("Secretariat," "Dances With Wolves," "The Road Warrior"), who received the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award from Angelina Jolie, and Rodney Charters ("24," "Shameless," "Dallas"), who was given the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award for Television.

"I love actors and I want to thank all of them for hitting their mark and finding my light," said Charters in accepting his award.

Robby Muller, whose work includes "Paris, Texas," "Breaking the Waves" and "Down by Law," received the International Achievement Award.

Curtis Clark, who has shot "The Draughtsman's Contract" and "Triumph of the Spirit" along with making hundreds of commercial and serving on the ASC Technology Committee, received the President's Award and called the transition from photo-chemical processing to digital "the most disruptive transition in cinematographic history."

The American Society of Cinematographers is not a guild or union, but an invitation-only professional organization of about 350 top cinematographers.

The ceremony took place in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at the Hollywood & Highland Center.

The winners:

Feature Film: Roger Deakins, "Skyfall"

Television Episodic Series/Pilot, One Hour: (tie) Balazs Bolygo, "Hunted" ("Mort"); Kramer Morgenthau, "Game of Thrones" ("The North Remembers")

Television Episodic Series/Pilot, Half Hour: Bradford Lipson, "Wilfred" ("Truth")

Television Movies/Miniseries: Florian Hoffmeister, "Great Expectations"

ASC Lifetime Achievement Award: Dean Semler

ASC Career Achievement in Television Award: Rodney Charters

International Achievement Award: Robby Muller

ASC Presidents Award: Curtis Clark

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/american-society-cinematographers-likes-look-skyfall-210432930.html

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Photos: Little-seen images from massive Hindu festival

"Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig has spoken out regarding film critic Rex Reed's scathing comments aimed at Melissa McCarthy's weight. Feig, who directed the Oscar-nominated actress in the 2011 hit comedy, took to Twitter on Friday to slam Reed's venomous comments -- which included dubbing McCarthy "obnoxious," "tractor-sized" and a "female hippo."

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Senin, 11 Februari 2013

Mountain hunt for ex-LAPD cop enters fourth day in mountains

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) ? The hunt for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in three killings entered a fourth day in snow-covered mountains Sunday, a day after the LAPD chief ordered a review of the disciplinary case that led to the fugitive's dismissal and new details emerge of the evidence he left behind.

Officials will re-examine the allegations by Christopher Dorner, 33, that his law enforcement career was undone by racist colleagues, Police Chief Charlie Beck announced Saturday. While he promised to hear out Dorner if he surrenders, Beck stressed that he was ordering a review of his 2007 case because he takes the allegation of racism in his department seriously.

"I do this not to appease a murderer. I do it to reassure the public that their police department is transparent and fair in all the things we do," the chief said in a statement.

Authorities suspect Dorner in a series of attacks in Southern California over the past week that left three people dead. Authorities say he has vowed revenge against several former LAPD colleagues whom he blames for ending his career. The killings and threats that Dorner allegedly made in an online rant have led police to provide protection to 50 families, Beck said.

A captain who was named a target in the manifesto posted on Facebook told the Orange County Register he has not stepped outside his house since he learned of the threat.

"From what I've seen of (Dorner's) actions, he feels he can make allegations for injustice and justify killing people and that's not reasonable," said Capt. Phil Tingirides, who chaired a board that stripped Dorner of his badge. "The end never justifies the means."

On Saturday, the scaled-back search party took advantage of a break from stormy weather to look for Dorner in the San Bernardino mountains, about 80 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, where his burned-out pickup truck was discovered Thursday.

A law enforcement officer told The Associated Press authorities found weapons in the truck. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe is ongoing.

Investigators have been examining the truck to determine if it broke down or was set ablaze as a diversion. Police say the truck had a broken axle. Investigators are trying to determine whether it was already broken when they found it, or whether it was damaged when it was towed away.

Also, newly released surveillance video showed Dorner tossing several items into a Dumpster behind an auto parts store in National City on Monday. The store's manager told FOX5 in San Diego that an employee found a magazine full of bullets, a military belt and a military helmet. Majid Yahyai said he and the employee took the items across the street to a police station.

On Friday night, authorities served a search warrant and collected evidence from a Buena Park storage unit as part of their investigation. Irvine police Lt. Julia Engen wouldn't elaborate on the nature of the evidence or say who had rented the unit.

Earlier Friday, another warrant was served at a La Palma house belonging to Dorner's mother. Officers collected 10 bags of evidence, including five electronic items.

In his online manifesto, Dorner vowed to use "every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordnance and survival training I've been given" to bring "warfare" to the LAPD and its families.

Dorner served in the Navy, earning a rifle marksman ribbon and a pistol expert medal. He was assigned to a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records. He took leave from the LAPD for a six-month deployment to Bahrain in 2006 and 2007.

The flight training that he received in the Navy prompted the Transportation Security Administration to issue an alert, warning the general aviation community to be on the lookout for Dorner. The extent of his potential flying skills wasn't known, the bulletin said.

Feb. 1 was his last day with the Navy and also the day CNN's Anderson Cooper received a package that contained a note on it that read, in part, "I never lied." A coin riddled with bullet holes that former Chief William Bratton gave out as a souvenir was also in the package.

Police said it was a sign of planning by Dorner before the killing began.

On Feb. 3, police say Dorner shot and killed a couple in a parking garage at their condominium in Irvine. The woman was the daughter of a retired police captain who had represented Dorner in the disciplinary proceedings that led to his firing.

Dorner wrote in his manifesto that he believed the retired captain had represented the interests of the department over his.

Hours after authorities identified Dorner as a suspect in the double murder, police believe Dorner shot and grazed an LAPD officer in Corona and then used a rifle to ambush two Riverside police officers early Thursday, killing one and seriously wounding the other.

The crime spree spanned across a wide swath of Southern California, prompting several police agencies, including the FBI and US Marshall Service, to form a joint investigative task force.

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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Christopher Weber, Greg Risling, Haven Daley, Michael Blood, John Antczak, Mark Evans and Julie Watson.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mountain-hunt-ex-lapd-cop-enters-4th-day-084438786.html

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Make Sure That Local Florist You Found On Google Really Is Local

Let?s say that you want to order some flowers for your aunt in Omaha. You remember the frequent warnings on this site to go directly to a local florist, so that?s what you do. You type ?florist omaha? into Google, scroll past the paid listings and the ones Google has plotted on a map, and choose a shop with a nice-looking website. Perfect! Only this ?local? florist isn?t so local. You tried to make the right choice, but are hurting the very neighborhood flower shop you were trying to patronize when you typed those words in Google.

The business behind the site you?ve found is most likely a family-owned flower shop, but not one in your target city. Both you and that local florist that will actually deliver the arrangement have fallen victim to the fake local florist scheme.

Here?s how it works. Most businesses use SEO (search engine optimization) to guide you to their sites. That first page of ?florist omaha nebraska? search results on Google is prime real estate, and companies work hard and/or pay big bucks to be the first listing that everyone sees, and the only listings that lazy people see. The entire workings of SEO are beyond the scope of this article, but the goal for fake local florists is simple enough: prepare pages for small and large cities and towns, and make sure those pages show up when shoppers go looking for florists in those places.

For example, here?s part of a landing page for Omaha.

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The page where you land might name local landmarks and mention all of the locations in your city where they deliver: schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and colleges. That information is all for the benefit of search engines. The page might mention that the shop has a fleet of delivery vans, and that they deliver in [name of city in a different state], but these two facts aren?t necessarily related.

Once you click to order, though, the order won?t go to the shop whose name is on the site. Instead, your order goes directly to the wire service: let?s say that it?s FTD. The order goes through exactly as if you had gone right to FTD.com, minus a cut to the shop that runs the site. FTD turns around and routes the order to one of the local florists in their network. This is the part that has angry florists writing us to complain.

?Local florists loathe this company,? one local florist wrote to us about one fake local florist, ?because nearly 40% of what the consumer spends actually makes it back to the local florist who fills and delivers the orders.? That?s not what people have in mind when they set out to find an actual local florist.

SO HOW DO I FIND AN ACTUAL LOCAL FLORIST?

Glad you asked. The obvious thing is to ask around: Talk to friends and family who live nearby. You can even take the lazy way out and just make a Facebook post. If you don?t know anyone in the area, try Yelp, or even use Google?s local listings: at least you can see on a map that the shop is located in the correct state.

Here are a few clues that your florist is really local: they list their street address on every page of their site. For example:

Local address and phone number, yay!

Local address and phone number, yay!

Here?s another example with an address and a local phone number.

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The address doesn?t have to appear on every page, but it should be somewhere on the site. Check the ?About? page, or the site?s home page.

Source: http://consumerist.com/2013/02/11/make-sure-that-local-florist-you-found-on-google-really-is-local/

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Northeast tries to get back on track after storm

A man uses a snowblower around a statue of Nathan Hale outside the Wadsworth Atheneum after a winter storm in Hartford, Conn., Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. A howling storm across the Northeast left much of the New York-to-Boston corridor covered with more than three feet of snow on Friday into Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

A man uses a snowblower around a statue of Nathan Hale outside the Wadsworth Atheneum after a winter storm in Hartford, Conn., Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. A howling storm across the Northeast left much of the New York-to-Boston corridor covered with more than three feet of snow on Friday into Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

A plow clears a path outside Poquonock Elementary School in Windsor, Conn., Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. A howling storm across the Northeast left much of the New York-to-Boston corridor covered with more than three feet of snow on Friday into Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Courtney Bazininet hands a shovel to her friend, Alice Fernald, after getting her car temporarily stuck in a snow bank, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Portland, Maine. Residents are digging out after a blizzard dumped a record 31.9 inches of snow on the city. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Snow begins to melt on cars parked at a dealership after a winter storm in Hartford, Conn., Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. A howling storm across the Northeast left much of the New York-to-Boston corridor covered with more than three feet of snow on Friday into Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

School buses are covered in snow after a winter storm in Hartford, Conn., Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. A howling storm across the Northeast left much of the New York-to-Boston corridor covered with more than three feet of snow on Friday into Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

(AP) ? Emergency crews and residents struggled to clear roadways and sidewalks from a storm that rampaged through the Northeast, dumping up to 3 feet of snow and bringing howling winds that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands.

Municipal workers from New York to Boston labored through the night into Sunday in snow-bound communities, where some motorists had to be rescued after spending hours stuck in wet, heavy snow. President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency for Connecticut, allowing federal aid to be used in recovery, and utilities in some hard-hit New England states predicted that the storm could leave some customers in the dark for days.

"We've never seen anything like this," said county official Steven Bellone of New York's Long Island, which got more than 2? feet of snow.

About 345,000 homes and businesses were without power Sunday morning, down from a peak of about 650,000. Some school districts announced they'd be closed Monday, complicating parents' back to work schedules but giving kids another day for frolicking.

At least 11 deaths in the U.S. were blamed on the snowstorm, including an 11-year-old boy in Boston who was overcome by carbon monoxide as he sat in a running car to keep warm while his father shoveled Saturday morning. That death and the illnesses of several others exposed to carbon monoxide set off a flurry of safety warnings from public officials.

Roads across the Northeast were impassable and cars were entombed by snow drifts on Saturday. Some people found the snow packed so high against their homes they couldn't get their doors open.

"It's like lifting cement. They say it's 2 feet, but I think it's more like 3 feet," said Michael Levesque, who was shoveling snow in Quincy, Mass., for a landscaping company.

In Providence, where the drifts were 5 feet high and telephone lines encrusted with ice and snow drooped under the weight, Jason Harrison labored for nearly three hours to clear his blocked driveway and front walk and still had more work to do.

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee cautioned that while the snow had stopped, the danger hadn't passed: "People need to take this storm seriously, even after it's over. If you have any kind of heart condition, be careful with the shoveling."

Blowing with hurricane-force winds of more than 80 mph in places, the storm hit hard along the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor between New York City and Maine. Milford., Conn., got 38 inches of snow, and Portland, Maine, recorded 31.9, shattering a 1979 record. Several communities in New York and across New England got more than 2 feet.

Still, the storm was not as bad as some of the forecasts led many to fear, and not as dire as the Blizzard of '78, used by longtime New Englanders as the benchmark by which all other winter storms are measured.

"Considering the severity, of the storm, the amount of snow and the wind, we've come though this pretty well," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Boston got up to 2 feet of snow, according to the National Weather Service. The 14.8 inches that fell Saturday alone broke the city's record for of 12.4 inches in a single day, set in 1994. Bradley Airport near Hartford, Conn., got 22 inches, for the No. 2 spot in the record books there.

Concord, N.H., got 24 inches of snow, the second-highest amount on record and a few inches short of the reading from the great Blizzard of 1888.

In New York, where Central Park recorded 11 inches, not even enough to make the Top 10 list, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city "dodged a bullet" and its streets were "in great shape." The three major airports serving the city ? LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark, N.J. ? were up and running by late morning after shutting down the evening before.

Most of the power outages were in Massachusetts, where at its peak more than 400,000 homes and businesses were in the dark. In Rhode Island, a high of around 180,000 customers lost power, or about one-third of the state.

Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island imposed travel bans to keep cars off the road and let plows do their work, and the National Guard helped clear highways in Connecticut, where more than 240 accidents were reported. The Guardsmen rescued about 90 people, including a few who had hypothermia and were taken to hospitals.

On Long Island, hundreds of drivers spent a cold and scary night stuck on the highways. Even snowplows got bogged down or were blocked by stuck cars, so emergency workers used snowmobiles to try to reach motorists, many of whom were still waiting to be rescued hours after the snow had stopped.

Richard Ebbrecht, a chiropractor, left his office in Brooklyn at 3 p.m. on Friday and headed for home in Middle Island, N.Y., but got stuck six or seven times on the Long Island Expressway and other roads.

"There was a bunch of us Long Islanders. We were all helping each other, shoveling, pushing," he said. He finally gave up and settled in for the night in his car just two miles from his destination. At 8 a.m., when it was light out, he walked home.

"I could run my car and keep the heat on and listen to the radio a little bit," he said. "It was very icy under my car. That's why my car is still there."

Local police said Sunday that all known abandoned cars were searched and no one needing medical help was found. But A 27-mile stretch of the expressway remained closed in both directions so crews could remove snow.

Around the New York metropolitan area, many victims of Superstorm Sandy were mercifully spared another round of flooding, property damage and power failures.

"I was very lucky and I never even lost power," said Susan Kelly of Bayville. "We were dry as anything. My new roof was fantastic. Other than digging out, this storm was a nice storm." As for the shoveling, "I got two hours of exercise."

Across much of New England, streets were empty of cars and dotted instead with children who had never seen so much snow and were jumping into snow banks and making forts. Snow was waist-high in the streets of Boston. Plows made some thoroughfares passable but piled even more snow on cars parked on the city's narrow streets.

Boston's Logan Airport resumed operations Saturday, and limited train and bus service in the metro area was set to resume Sunday afternoon. Authorities hoped to restore most service for Monday.

Life went on as usual for some. In Portland, Karen Willis Beal got her dream wedding on Saturday ? complete with a snowstorm just like the one that hit before her parents married in December 1970.

"I have always wanted a snowstorm for my wedding, and my wish has come true to the max," she said.

Some spots in Massachusetts had to be evacuated because of coastal flooding, including Salisbury Beach, where around 40 people were ordered out.

One concern going forward was a forecast for rain Monday in New England. While warmer temperatures might begin melting snow, the rain on top of snow already piled up on roofs could pose a danger of collapse.

"We are encouraging people as they can do so safely to use snow rakes and so forth to move the snow off of their roofs," Patrick said.

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Lindsay reported from Salisbury, Mass. Associated Press writers David Klepper in Providence, Ebony Reed in Quincy, Mass., Karen Matthews in New York, Frank Eltman in Farmingville N.Y., Charles Krupa in Boston, and John Christoffersen in Fairfield, Conn., contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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